Alice Munro, a Canadian writer and winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, is recognized for her relevant contribution to gender studies. Munro's fiction has provided readers with interesting and complex characters, especially in reference of the role of women in face of their growing and social insertion. In this study, I intend to develop a reading of the story "Paixão" (year 2004) by Munro in relation to the author's critical view expressed through male and female representations , which challenge assumptions linked to traditional gender patterns. For the development of this study I count on with the support of the reflections of Elisabeth Badinter and Chris Weedom.